- U.S.

Privately owned housing units were completed at a...

February 11, 1989

- U.S. privately owned housing units were completed at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.517 million in December, up 5.9 percent from November, according to the Commerce Department. For all of 1988, housing completions totaled 1.528 million, down 8.4 percent from 1987.